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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch

I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
PETRARCH

Love Memories Sweet
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
PETRARCH

Leaving Myself Way Yourself
Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
PETRARCH

Blessing Dangerous Health Live Man Reason Yourself
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
PETRARCH

Born Ourselves Preference Time
My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
PETRARCH

Age Chill Draw Feeling Flower Green Myself
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
PETRARCH

Grief Hope Incredible Slave
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
PETRARCH

Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
PETRARCH

Earth Known Moral Myself Name
Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
PETRARCH

Death Grudge Hands Himself
I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
PETRARCH

Command Country Delight Easy Friendship Live Myself Society
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
PETRARCH

Foe Names Reality
For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Beyond Dare Genius Style
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich

Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

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